The young woman said generously: "My name is He Lihong, and I am here to report to the municipal government that the environment in our village is polluted. It turns out that there is a river in front of our village, which is very clear. Since we came to an electrolytic manganese factory, the water there has become smelly. Not only are the fish and shrimps dead, but even the seedlings watered with this river have also died. We have also gone to the county many times to report the problem. They all said that loving and protecting business is the provincial instruction and did not solve the problem for us. Later, we found out that this enterprise was supported by a large leader in the city, so the villagers entrusted me, the village director, to report the problem."

Mu Guoxing smiled and said, "Oh, are you still the village director? I didn't expect that you are the village chief of a village so young. It's really not easy!"

He Lihong also smiled and said, "Look, you are not much older than me. Don't you all be the governor?"

He Lihong's words aroused a burst of laughter from the cadres and masses around him. Mu Guoxing said with a smile: "He Director, this issue you are reacting to is very important. The economic development cannot be at the expense of the environment. Do you dare to tell me which city leader is supporting this electrolytic manganese factory?"

He Lihong's teeth bit his lips, thought for a while, and said, "I heard from the boss of this factory that he is the old secretary of our city, and the current director of the National People's Congress is supporting him."

Before Mu Guoxing could speak, he saw the Municipal Party Committee Secretary Ni Peishan running over panting: "Governor, sorry, I just got the news that you are here to inspect. Please don't be surprised if you are late!"

When Mu Guoxing saw that he was following several cadres, he shook hands with them while smiling and asked, "Which one is the director of the National People's Congress?"

A fat man in his sixties, who was slightly bald, came over and said, "Governor, hello, I am Kang Hongqing, director of the National People's Congress."

"Oh, Director Kang, I heard that you have attracted an electrolytic manganese factory to our city. Is that true?"

Kang Hongqing was happy. He thought the governor knew about his contribution to attracting investment and wanted to praise him. "Yes, it took me a lot of effort to invite this boss. Since the electrolytic manganese factory was put into production, it has made great contributions to the local economic exhibition. Last year, it paid several million yuan in taxes."

Mu Guoxing's face darkened: "Can these millions be able to manage a river well? You are also an old comrade. You should also understand the dialectical relationship between economy and environmental protection, and the way of first developing and then managing. The facts proved to be very wrong, and it is not worth the money in terms of economic gains."

Mu Guoxing raised his voice and said to the cadres on the scene: "It is important to attract investment, but you can't attract them. If you don't care, how can you love and protect business? It is to encourage these foreign investors to operate in accordance with the law, which is the greatest love for them. Things are divided into two parts. Comrade Hong Qing's efforts in attracting investment should be praised, but if you attract investors and relax your management of them, you should be criticized. Give you a month to make this electrolytic manganese factory meet the environmentally friendly emission standards. Otherwise, they will be ordered to stop production and rectify, and it's better not to have these GDPs that harm the environment."

The onlookers burst into warm applause. Judging from the expressions on their faces, Mu Guoxing could conclude that most of the people who came to petition were here to reflect this issue.

Ni Peishan said: "Governor, is it more convenient for us to report to you when we are there?"

Hearing Mu Guoxing was leaving, he smiled and said with Lihong: "Governor, we finally saw you once. Can you take a photo with us? I can take it back and show it to the villagers."

Mu Guoxing called Ni Peishan and Yu Baoshui over and said to Lihong with a smile: "You can't just take a photo with me, the governor. I will invite your municipal party secretary and mayor to come together. Wouldn't you be more face when you go back to meet the villagers!"

In the small conference room of the Municipal Party Committee, the audience was filled with leaders of the four major teams who were rushing to come. A meeting that combines reports and welcomes began.

Through the reports of Ni Peishan and Yu Baoshui, Mu Guoxing specifically asked about the economic development of Hongfeng City in recent years. Mu Guoxing believed that only through this situation can we understand more real situations. With the reporting materials organized by scholars, we cannot get anything useful according to the script.

Mu Guoxing finally said: "Of the eleven counties in Hongfeng City, four are ethnic autonomous counties. They have rich tourism resources. The tourism industry has been doing well in the past few years. Why has it declined so much in recent years? One of the main reasons is that the random harvesting and logging of resources pollute the environment. The tourist attractions are not good, so of course they will not come again. This is what you call picking sesame seeds and throwing watermelons."

"The central and provincial governments attach great importance to investment promotion, but we must also pay attention to a problem: what kind of enterprises can be introduced and what kind of enterprises cannot be attracted, and we must firmly grasp this degree. Now, because some coastal economically advanced regions attach importance to environmental protection, they have transferred some high-pollution and high-energy consumption enterprises to under-reach areas in the northwest. We must pay great attention to this issue."

"My opinion is that it is not impossible to open domestic resources, but we must introduce some large enterprises with strong and environmental protection to reasonably open and utilize the resources. The small electrolytic manganese factory you introduced has an annual output of less than 1,000 tons, but the pollution caused is very serious. The province is preparing to issue a document that if the annual output exceeds 3,000 tons and the pollution control does not meet the national standards, it must be banned."

The cadres in the audience were taking notes carefully in the notebook. Mu Guoxing took a sip of tea and continued: "It is very important to find a way suitable for the development of the region. We have banned these small factories not to stop attracting investment, nor to avoid GDP, but to make our region's economy have a sustainable and efficient development environment. I also said during the survey of the previous cities and cities this time that the province is preparing to organize various cities and counties to invest in coastal economic development areas. Today I will give you a good idea, hoping that you can pay attention to it and take out the best investment projects in your city in the shortest time. I believe that as our investment promotion efforts continue to strengthen, our province's future economic development will have a fast development."

Mu Guoxing refused to resign the Hongfeng Municipal Party Committee and Government and returned to the provincial capital. That night, Hongfeng City held a standing committee in accordance with Mu Guoxing's instructions to study their city's next investment promotion work and the management of some small electrolytic manganese factories and mines with severe pollution. These cadres also learned about Governor Mu's work style and work priorities when he went down to investigate. No one dared not to listen to his words now.

In fact, Mu Guoxing was rushing back to the provincial capital because he received a call from Chen Yinhao, deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. The Central Joint Investigation Team ended his work in Guangnan Province early and would return to the capital tomorrow. Before leaving, Chen Yinhao wanted to talk to Mu Guoxing.

"Comrade Guoxing, we have received a notice from the central government that we will return to the capital tomorrow. We are really embarrassed to end the investigation in advance and return to the provincial capital overnight."

"Haha, Minister Chen, I should thank you first. Without the Central Investigation Team here, I really don't dare to go on for so many days. Although this time, I didn't go to too many places for investigation, I also obtained a lot of useful first-hand information and found a lot of problems."

Chen Yinhao handed over a stack of materials: "This is the working group's guiding suggestions on personnel matters by the Provincial Party Committee. You can take a look first. If you have any comments, you can put them in and make changes. After I leave, you will hand them over to the Provincial Party Committee on our behalf."

The guiding suggestions of the Central Working Group are nicely said, which is actually the informal decision of the Organization Department of the Central Committee on personnel arrangements in a province. The party committees of any province and city also know the importance of this suggestion, and no one dares to disobey it.
Chapter completed!